Tag: 13 Reasons Why

Adolescents are notoriously difficult to reason with. Canada has 36 million people. The U.S. has more than 326 million people. The news has been filled for years with horror stories about wait times and poor care (or no care) within Veterans' Affairs (despite its $200 billion budget) and the Indian Health Service. If the government cannot provide care for 9 million veterans (those actually enrolled in the VA health care system) or 5.2 million Native Americans, what makes anyone think they can provide it for 330 million Americans? Politicians' cost projections are always wrong. Current projections put the costs of Sanders' proposal at $32 trillion dollars. In practical terms, this will means tens of millions more people streaming into the country demanding "free" health care. When the funding deficits hit -- as they always do -- then the public discovers the first hard truth: Single-payer isn't a health care provision system; it is a health care rationing system. There are always unanticipated problems, and government is too big to respond nimbly or change quickly, even when the need is great.